General hospital and healthcare issues,CMS oversight of Medicaid payment programs,the healthcare workforce, graduate medical education, and 340B drugs,potential healthcare provisions in the 2024 budget including site neutrality, HRSA workforce program extenders, and payment transparency.
Duration: January 1, 2008
to
present
General Issues: Health Issues , Medicare/Medicaid , Torts
Spending: about $5,523,171 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)
It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.
Agencies lobbied since 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), White House Office, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Lobbyists
Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.
Disclosures Filed
Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.
1st Quarter, 2024
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 12.
Original Filing: 301548591.xml
Lobbying Issues
General hospital and healthcare issues,CMS oversight of Medicaid payment programs,the healthcare workforce, graduate medical education, and 340B drugs,potential healthcare provisions in the 2024 budget including site neutrality, HRSA workforce program extenders, and payment transparency.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2023
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 9.
Original Filing: 301522850.xml
Lobbying Issues
General hospital and healthcare issues,CMS oversight of Medicaid payment programs,the healthcare workforce, graduate medical education, and 340B drugs,potential healthcare provisions in the 2024 budget including site neutrality, HRSA workforce program extenders, and payment transparency.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2023
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 18, 2023.
Original Filing: 301504864.xml
Lobbying Issues
General hospital and healthcare issues,CMS oversight of Medicaid payment programs,the healthcare workforce, graduate medical education, and 340B drugs.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2023
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 19, 2023.
Original Filing: 301483443.xml
Lobbying Issues
General hospital and healthcare issues,CMS oversight of Medicaid payment programs,the healthcare workforce, graduate medical education, and 340B drugs.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2023
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 14, 2023.
Original Filing: 301452063.xml
Lobbying Issues
General hospital and healthcare issues,CMS oversight of Medicaid payment programs,the healthcare workforce, graduate medical education, and 340B drugs.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2022
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2023.
Original Filing: 301436744.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation related to healthcare workforce shortages and safety, the Medicare sequester, behavioral health issues, and the winding down of the PHE. Also focused on hospital payment updates.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2022
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2022.
Original Filing: 301416958.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation related to healthcare workforce shortages and safety, the Medicare sequester, behavioral health issues, and the winding down of the PHE. Also focused on hospital payment updates.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2022
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2022.
Original Filing: 301390637.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation related to healthcare workforce shortages and safety, the Medicare sequester, behavioral health issues, and the winding down of the PHE. Also focused on hospital payment updates.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2022
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 20, 2022.
Original Filing: 301369457.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2021
Florida Hospital Association amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q42021 on May 6, 2022
Original Filing: 301374514.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2021
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2022.
Original Filing: 301334190.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2021
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 18, 2021.
Original Filing: 301301745.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2021
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2021.
Original Filing: 301289835.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2021
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 20, 2021.
Original Filing: 301261392.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2020
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2021.
Original Filing: 301238749.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2020
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2020.
Original Filing: 301221802.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2020
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2020.
Original Filing: 301195272.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2020
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 16, 2020.
Original Filing: 301167801.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2019
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 16, 2020.
Original Filing: 301107264.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2019
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 18, 2019.
Original Filing: 301069369.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2019
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 18, 2019.
Original Filing: 301049146.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2019
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 18, 2019.
Original Filing: 301029088.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2018
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 17, 2019.
Original Filing: 301006690.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2018
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 25, 2018.
Original Filing: 300999331.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2018
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2018.
Original Filing: 300975881.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2018
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 17, 2018.
Original Filing: 300945790.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2017
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 19, 2018.
Original Filing: 300929862.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2017
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 19, 2017.
Original Filing: 300909259.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2017
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 13, 2017.
Original Filing: 300884351.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2017
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 17, 2017.
Original Filing: 300866168.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2016
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 11, 2017.
Original Filing: 300845156.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2016
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 17, 2016.
Original Filing: 300829232.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2016
Florida Hospital Association amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q22016 on July 20, 2016
Original Filing: 300817290.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2016
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 18, 2016.
Original Filing: 300793293.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2016
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 20, 2016.
Original Filing: 300801829.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2015
Florida Hospital Association amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q42015 on Jan. 19, 2016
Original Filing: 300776717.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2015
Florida Hospital Association amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q42015 on Oct. 21, 2015
Original Filing: 300765724.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2015
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2015.
Original Filing: 300761988.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2015
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Nov. 17, 2015.
Original Filing: 300767668.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2015
Florida Hospital Association amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q32015 on Nov. 17, 2015
Original Filing: 300767671.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2015
Florida Hospital Association filed a lobbying registration on Oct. 28, 2015 for in-house lobbying efforts, effective Aug. 1, 2015.
Original Filing: 300766729.xml
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate. .
2nd Quarter, 2015
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 17, 2015.
Original Filing: 300738833.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2015
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 16, 2015.
Original Filing: 300717643.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
4th Quarter, 2014
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2015.
Original Filing: 300702081.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
3rd Quarter, 2014
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2014.
Original Filing: 300685669.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage andaccess through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2014
Florida Hospital Association amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q22014 on July 18, 2014
Original Filing: 300662891.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
2nd Quarter, 2014
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 18, 2014.
Original Filing: 300661415.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
1st Quarter, 2014
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 16, 2014.
Original Filing: 300637005.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2013
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 17, 2014.
Original Filing: 300617482.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2013
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 16, 2013.
Original Filing: 300594891.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2013
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 12, 2013.
Original Filing: 300571058.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2013
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 29, 2013.
Original Filing: 300565923.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2012
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2013.
Original Filing: 300536386.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand health coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2012
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 22, 2012.
Original Filing: 300520059.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand health care coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Floridas Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2012
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2012.
Original Filing: 300496309.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand healthcare coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Floridas Medicaid waiver. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2012
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 19, 2012.
Original Filing: 300466007.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand healthcare coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for approval of Floridas Medicaid waiver. Support of SGR fix, but oppose hospital payment reductions to pay for them. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2011
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2012.
Original Filing: 300451282.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand healthcare coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for continuation of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Opposition to reducing hospital reimbursements though various deficit reduction proposals. Support of SGR Fix, but oppose hospital payment reductions to pay for. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2011
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2011.
Original Filing: 300427692.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand healthcare coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid. Support for continuation of Floridas Medicaid Waiver. Opposition to reducing hospital reimbursements through various deficit reduction proposals. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate. Support for additional GME residency slots.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2011
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2011.
Original Filing: 300399827.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand healthcare coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid, foster reform at the state level, expand the use of health information technology. Support for continuation of Floridas Medicaid Waiver. Opposition to cutting hospital reimbursement. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2011
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 20, 2011.
Original Filing: 300373829.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand healthcare coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid, foster reform at the state level, expand the use of health information technology. Support for continuation of Floridas Medicaid Waiver. Support for expansion of 340B program to include inpatients. Opposition to cutting hospital reimbursement in order to pay for physician SGR fix. Support for modification of proposed rule reallocating unused resident slots. Support to ensure Medicaid DSH payments are adequate.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2010
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2011.
Original Filing: 300347425.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislate to expand health care coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid, foster reform at the state level, expand the use of health information technology. Support for expansion of 340 B program to include inpatients. Opposition to cutting hospital reimbursement in order to pay for physician SGR fix. Support for health information technology multi-campus issue. Support for continuation of Florida's Medicaid waiver. Support for modification of proposed rule reallocating unused resident slots.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2010
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 21, 2010.
Original Filing: 300330217.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislature to expand health care coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid, foster reform at the state level, expand the use of health information technology. Support for continuation of enhanced FMAP through June 2011.
Sopport for expansion of 340B program to include inpatients. Opposition to cutting hospital reimbursement in order to pay for physician SGR fix.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2010
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2010.
Original Filing: 300299478.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access through Medicare and Medicaid, foster reform at the state level, expand the use of health information technology.Support for continuation of enhanced FMAP through June 30, 2011.
Support for expansion of 340B program to include inpatients.Opposition to cutting hospital reimbursement in order to pay for physician SGR fix.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2010
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 20, 2010.
Original Filing: 300274501.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, ensure patient safety, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for HIV/AIDS programs, to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector. Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) ? expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women --Employee Free Choice Act (S560/HR 1409) ? eliminate the right of employers to demand a secret ballot election, system of first-contract binding arbitration --Secret Ballot Protection Act (S478/HR 1176) -- to require a secret ballot in union organizing elections --American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1) ? Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200/HR 3962) ? public option, employer mandate, graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- ?Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act? (HR 3590) as amended by the ?Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, geographic variation, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, 340 B drug pricing, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act? (HR 4872)
-- Changes to the proposed health information technology (HIT) rule
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.--TRICARE Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule ? to adopt Medicare payment policies for outpatient services --Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) ? expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women --Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation ? IME Capital provisions --House and Senate Budget Resolutions (S Con Res 13/H Con Res 85) ? healthcare reform --American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 (HR 1) -- Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- Potential provisions of Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation: IME capital payment reductions
-- Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S973/HR2251) -- to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions --The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act" (HR 2536) -- address the "retrogression" backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200) ? payment under public option, graduate medical education, disproportionate share hospital payments, changes in federal medical assistance percentage, Independent Medicare Advisory Council, geographic variation of Medicare payments
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200/HR 3962) ? public option, employer mandate, graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- ?Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act? (HR 3590) as amended by the ?Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
----?Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act? (HR 4872)
-- ?Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act? (HR 2847) ?enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
-- ?Jobs for Main Street Act 2010? (HR 2847) ? to include hospital bond provision, enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, extend COBRA subsidies ----?Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act? (HR 4872)
-- Temporary Extension Act? (HR 4691) -- COBRA continuation coverage, delays the 21 percent reduction in Medicare physician payments as well. Additionally, the law extends the Medicare physical therapy services caps exceptions process.
--American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act? (HR 4213), Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, COBRA benefit subsidy, expiring Medicare payment provisions related to rural hospitals, long-term care hospitals, Section 508 hospital reclassifications, the technical component of certain physician pathology services, mental health services, and add-on payments for ambulance, critical access hospitals, that hospital-based physicians and ARRA IT funding.
-- Continuing Extension Act (HR 4851) that would delay the physicians cut, Medicare outpatient therapy services, COBRA benefit subsidy, extend ARRA HIT provisions to outpatient physicians.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2009
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 20, 2010.
Original Filing: 300245980.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, ensure patient safety, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for HIV/AIDS programs, to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector. --Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Employee Free Choice Act (S560/HR 1409) eliminate the right of employers to demand a secret ballot election, system of first-contract binding arbitration
--Secret Ballot Protection Act (S478/HR 1176) -- to require a secret ballot in union organizing elections
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1) Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200/HR 3962) public option, employer mandate, graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act (HR 3590) as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.--TRICARE Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule to adopt Medicare payment policies for outpatient services
--Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation IME Capital provisions
--House and Senate Budget Resolutions (S Con Res 13/H Con Res 85) healthcare reform
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 (HR 1) -- Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- Potential provisions of Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation: IME capital payment reductions
-- Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S973/HR2251) -- to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions
--The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act" (HR 2536) -- address the "retrogression" backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200) payment under public option, graduate medical education, disproportionate share hospital payments, changes in federal medical assistance percentage, Independent Medicare Advisory Council, geographic variation of Medicare payments
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200/HR 3962) public option, employer mandate, graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act (HR 3590) as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2009
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2009.
Original Filing: 300220455.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.--TRICARE Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule to adopt Medicare payment policies for outpatient services
--Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation IME Capital provisions
--House and Senate Budget Resolutions (S Con Res 13/H Con Res 85) healthcare reform
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 (HR 1) -- Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- Potential provisions of Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation: IME capital payment reductions
-- Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S973/HR2251) -- to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions
--The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act" (HR 2536) -- address the "retrogression" backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200) payment under public option, graduate medical education, disproportionate share hospital payments, changes in federal medical assistance percentage, Independent Medicare Advisory Council, geographic variation of Medicare payments
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, ensure patient safety, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for HIV/AIDS programs, to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector. --Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Employee Free Choice Act (S560/HR 1409) eliminate the right of employers to demand a secret ballot election, system of first-contract binding arbitration
--Secret Ballot Protection Act (S478/HR 1176) -- to require a secret ballot in union organizing elections
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1) Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- "America's Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 3200) public option, employer mandate
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability:
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2009
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 20, 2009.
Original Filing: 300186893.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, ensure patient safety, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for HIV/AIDS programs, to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector. --Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Employee Free Choice Act (S560/HR 1409) eliminate the right of employers to demand a secret ballot election, system of first-contract binding arbitration
--Secret Ballot Protection Act (S478/HR 1176) -- to require a secret ballot in union organizing elections
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1) Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.--TRICARE Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule to adopt Medicare payment policies for outpatient services
--Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation IME Capital provisions
--House and Senate Budget Resolutions (S Con Res 13/H Con Res 85) healthcare reform
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 (HR 1) -- Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
-- Developing healthcare reform proposals including provisions regarding graduate medical education, a public health insurance option, value-based purchasing, readmissions, federal medical assistance percentage, disproportionate share hospital payments, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement.
-- Potential provisions of Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation: IME capital payment reductions
-- Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (S973/HR2251) -- to provide for the distribution of additional residency positions
--The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act" (HR 2536) -- address the "retrogression" backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2009
In Q1, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 20, 2009.
Original Filing: 300162029.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, ensure patient safety, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for HIV/AIDS programs, to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector. --Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Employee Free Choice Act (S560/HR 1409) eliminate the right of employers to demand a secret ballot election, system of first-contract binding arbitration
--Secret Ballot Protection Act (S478/HR 1176) -- to require a secret ballot in union organizing elections
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HR 1) Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.--TRICARE Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule to adopt Medicare payment policies for outpatient services
--Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (HR 2) expand and extend SCHIP, gives states option of covering legal immigrant children and pregnant women
--Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) regulation IME Capital provisions
--House and Senate Budget Resolutions (S Con Res 13/H Con Res 85) healthcare reform
--American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 200 (HR 1) -- Temporary FMAP increase, maintenance of efforts, health information technology, access to capital, moratoria on Medicaid regulations
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
4th Quarter, 2008
In Q4, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Jan. 21, 2009.
Original Filing: 300128913.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations. HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers.
S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs
HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program.
H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions
HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions
S 2785, Save Medicare Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index reclassification.
S. 3101; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index
HR 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index
HR 6252/S3144, would delay for 18 months the Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies.
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (HR 2642) Sec. 7001. (a) Moratoria on Certain Medicaid Regulations
HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program
HR 7110: Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act: Title III, temporary increase in Medicaid matching rate
S 3656: Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act -- which would delay cuts to Medicare capital indirect medical education (IME) payments for six months
provisions in the developing economic stimulus package to temporarily increase FMAP
self-referral
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals
workforce:
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME,
S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program.
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
payment:
HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA),
HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GMEHR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals
HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program
the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) final rule eliminated indirect medical education (IME) adjustments to teaching hospitals' capital payments
proposed rule to implement National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002" requirement that TRICARE payment methods for outpatient hospital care be determined outpatient reimbursement rules used by Medicare
S 3656: to delay cuts to Medicare capital indirect medical education (IME) payments for six months
quality
S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children.
HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers
S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of life
rehabilitation hospitals,
S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent,
rural hospitals,
S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE)
S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load
S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals
long term care hospitals:
HR 562/S338, Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program.
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities.
Medicaid,
HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year.
HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage.
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid
HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations
S 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care Act to implement a one-year moratorium on proposed regulatory changes to Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and to provide states in need with federal relief
HR 2462, the supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan provision to place a temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations, including the rules to limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and to eliminate Government Medical Education (GME).
SCHIP:
S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years
S 895/HR 1535,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date.
HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of
PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program
PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality
PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP
the FY08 IPPS proposed rule,
proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P),
the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for Ryan White programs, increase and stabilize the healthcare workforce.HR 2357; MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2007"; to create a new federal healthcare program to provide comprehensive health benefits to children
S 1218 /HR 2034, Medicare for All Act; expanding the Medicare program to those under age 65.
S 1169; State-Based Health Care Reform Act; to create a five-year pilot program in several states to develop coverage plans for the uninsured
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act require group health plans to provide comparable treatment limits and beneficiary cost sharing for medical and mental health benefits.
HR 1663, Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act to provide mental health parity in private health insurance and Medicare, and improves coverage for cost-effective and community-based mental health treatment services for seniors and people with disabilities
S 895/HR 1535; Children's Health First Act allow states to expand children's health coverage to families up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level
HR 1308S/764, Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act to permit states the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 would preserve state laws that are more comprehensive while creating parity in health plans offering mental health coverage by equating financial requirements and treatment limitations for mental health benefits with medical and surgical benefits.
S 325/HR 506, Health Partnership Act would provide grants to individual states, groups of states, and portions of states to test various health reform strategies
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program
HR 3221: Housing and Economic Recovery Act provision that would allow federal home loan banks to issue letters of credit for tax-exempt hospital bonds.
HR 7110: Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act: Title III, temporary increase in Medicaid matching rate
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions which would stabilize medical emergency reimbursement,
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
S 657, A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to add requirements regarding trauma care
HR 6394: Border Health Care Relief Act of 2008 Amends the MPDIMA to extend Sec. 1011 through FY2012 for federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure patient safety,
H.J.RES. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007 provision annual fit-testing of respirators for occupational exposure to tuberculosis.
S 2278/HR 4214 Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated infections Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure emergency preparedness,
HR 727, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007 would authorize an additional $46 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2012 in spending for rural medical centers that treat patients during times of national crisis
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
HR 3043; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for hospital preparedness
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to promote the use of health information technology:
S 1418, Wired for Health Care Quality Act
HR3043/S1710, Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Related Agencies FY 08, funding for HIT programs
HR 1467, 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act, award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems
HR 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration,guidelines and mechanisms to promote the integration of the healthcare information enterprise.
S 1408, Health Information Technology Act, would provide tax incentives and resources to offset the costs of investing in new health information technology.
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for HIT
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for HIT
HR 3043, Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for HIT
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008 provide funds for HIT
HR 6357 : Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008 or the PRO(TECH)T Act,
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions funding HIV/AIDS programs:
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
HR3043/S1710, FY 2008 Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, funding for Ryan White programs
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008, funding for Ryan White programs
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector
S 1604, Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act, increases the nurse workforce in rural areas, expands nursing school faculty, and develops initiatives to integrate patient safety practices into nursing education
HR 2122, Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007", limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work
S 1639, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the point-based system for visas, to give nurses special consideration under the point system
HR800/S1041, Employee Free Choice Act, require the NLRB to certify a bargaining representative if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check)
HR 2123, Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals
HR 378, Nurse and Patient Safety & Protection Act direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing a safe patient handling standard.
HR 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the definition of "supervisor"
S446, Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development (NEED) Act, grants based on the number of nursing students enrolled to hire and retain new nursing faculty
S 718, The Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act, provision study the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Nursing Education programs, , national health service corp
HR 677, Nursing School Capacity Act authorize IOM study to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating sufficient number of nurses
S1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act screening of direct patient access employees
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp.
S 588/HR 1093, Resident Physician Shortage Act, to expand the number of physician training positions in 24 states with shortages
HR 5924, The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act, which would address the retrogression backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses who have been hired by U.S. hospitals but are not able to come here because of the unavailability of an employment-based (EB) visa.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability:HR 2580, Help, Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act, cap non-economic damages at $250,000, limit a partys liability to their share, and empower courts to limit damage awards
S 1481/HR 2497, The Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act of 2007, fund ten pilot programs for states proposing new methods of resolving medical malpractice claims and reducing medical errors if the plan provides prompt and fair dispute resolution, encourages early disclosure of medical errors, enhances patient safety, and improves the affordability of malpractice insurance for providers
HR 3509, Medical Justice Act, medical liability reform legislation that would cap non-economic damages against any single health care provider at $250,000 and wrongful death total damages at $1.4 million
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Quarter, 2008
In Q3, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on Oct. 20, 2008.
Original Filing: 300101517.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations. HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers.
S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs
HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program.
H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions
HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions
S 2785, Save Medicare Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index reclassification.
S. 3101; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index
HR 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index
HR 6252/S3144, would delay for 18 months the Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies.
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (HR 2642) Sec. 7001. (a) Moratoria on Certain Medicaid Regulations
HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program
HR 7110: Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act: Title III, temporary increase in Medicaid matching rate
S 3656: Preserving Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act -- which would delay cuts to Medicare capital indirect medical education (IME) payments for six months
self-referral
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals
workforce,
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME,
S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program.
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
payment:
HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA),
HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals
HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program
quality
S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children.
HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers
S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of life
rehabilitation hospitals,
S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent,
rural hospitals,
S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE)
S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load
S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals
long term care hospitals:
HR 562/S338, Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program.
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities.
Medicaid,
HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year.
HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage.
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid
HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations
S 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care Act to implement a one-year moratorium on proposed regulatory changes to Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and to provide states in need with federal relief
HR 2462, the supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan provision to place a temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations, including the rules to limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and to eliminate Government Medical Education (GME).
SCHIP:
S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years
S 895/HR 1535,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date.
HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of
PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program
PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality
PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP
the FY08 IPPS proposed rule,
proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P),
the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for Ryan White programs, increase and stabilize the healthcare workforceHR 2357; MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2007"; to create a new federal healthcare program to provide comprehensive health benefits to children
S 1218 /HR 2034, Medicare for All Act; expanding the Medicare program to those under age 65.
S 1169; State-Based Health Care Reform Act; to create a five-year pilot program in several states to develop coverage plans for the uninsured
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act require group health plans to provide comparable treatment limits and beneficiary cost sharing for medical and mental health benefits.
HR 1663, Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act to provide mental health parity in private health insurance and Medicare, and improves coverage for cost-effective and community-based mental health treatment services for seniors and people with disabilities
S 895/HR 1535; Children's Health First Act allow states to expand children's health coverage to families up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level
HR 1308S/764, Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act to permit states the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 would preserve state laws that are more comprehensive while creating parity in health plans offering mental health coverage by equating financial requirements and treatment limitations for mental health benefits with medical and surgical benefits.
S 325/HR 506, Health Partnership Act would provide grants to individual states, groups of states, and portions of states to test various health reform strategies
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
HR 5268: To provide for a temporary increase of the Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program
HR 3221: Housing and Economic Recovery Act provision that would allow federal home loan banks to issue letters of credit for tax-exempt hospital bonds.
HR 7110: Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act: Title III, temporary increase in Medicaid matching rate
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions which would stabilize medical emergency reimbursement,
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
S 657, A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to add requirements regarding trauma care
HR 6394: Border Health Care Relief Act of 2008 Amends the MPDIMA to extend Sec. 1011 through FY2012 for federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure patient safety,
H.J.RES. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007 provision annual fit-testing of respirators for occupational exposure to tuberculosis.
S 2278/HR 4214 Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated infections
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure emergency preparedness,
HR 727, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007 would authorize an additional $46 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2012 in spending for rural medical centers that treat patients during times of national crisisHJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
HR 3043; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for hospital preparedness
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to promote the use of health information technology:
S 1418, Wired for Health Care Quality Act
HR3043/S1710, Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Related Agencies FY 08, funding for HIT programs
HR 1467, 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act, award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems
HR 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration,guidelines and mechanisms to promote the integration of the healthcare information enterprise.
S 1408, Health Information Technology Act, would provide tax incentives and resources to offset the costs of investing in new health information technology.
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for HIT
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for HIT
HR 3043, Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for HIT
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008 provide funds for HIT
HR 6357 : Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008 or the PRO(TECH)T Act,
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions funding HIV/AIDS programs:
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
HR3043/S1710, FY 2008 Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, funding for Ryan White programs
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008, funding for Ryan White programs
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector
S 1604, Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act, increases the nurse workforce in rural areas, expands nursing school faculty, and develops initiatives to integrate patient safety practices into nursing education
HR 2122, Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007", limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work
S 1639, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the point-based system for visas, to give nurses special consideration under the point system
HR800/S1041, Employee Free Choice Act, require the NLRB to certify a bargaining representative if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check)
HR 2123, Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals
HR 378, Nurse and Patient Safety & Protection Act direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing a safe patient handling standard.
HR 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the definition of "supervisor"
S446, Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development (NEED) Act, grants based on the number of nursing students enrolled to hire and retain new nursing faculty
S 718, The Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act, provision study the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Nursing Education programs, , national health service corp
HR 677, Nursing School Capacity Act authorize IOM study to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating sufficient number of nurses
S1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act screening of direct patient access employees
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp.
S 588/HR 1093, Resident Physician Shortage Act, to expand the number of physician training positions in 24 states with shortages
HR 5924, The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act, which would address the retrogression backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses who have been hired by U.S. hospitals but are not able to come here because of the unavailability of an employment-based (EB) visa.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Health care liability legislation:
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability:
HR 2580, Help, Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act, cap non-economic damages at $250,000, limit a partys liability to their share, and empower courts to limit damage awards
S 1481/HR 2497, The Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act of 2007, fund ten pilot programs for states proposing new methods of resolving medical malpractice claims and reducing medical errors if the plan provides prompt and fair dispute resolution, encourages early disclosure of medical errors, enhances patient safety, and improves the affordability of malpractice insurance for providers
HR 3509, Medical Justice Act, medical liability reform legislation that would cap non-economic damages against any single health care provider at $250,000 and wrongful death total damages at $1.4 million
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
2nd Quarter, 2008
In Q2, Florida Hospital Association had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on July 21, 2008.
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Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for Ryan White programs, increase and stabilize the healthcare workforceHR 2357; MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2007"; to create a new federal healthcare program to provide comprehensive health benefits to children
S 1218 /HR 2034, Medicare for All Act; expanding the Medicare program to those under age 65.
S 1169; State-Based Health Care Reform Act; to create a five-year pilot program in several states to develop coverage plans for the uninsured
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act require group health plans to provide comparable treatment limits and beneficiary cost sharing for medical and mental health benefits.
HR 1663, Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act to provide mental health parity in private health insurance and Medicare, and improves coverage for cost-effective and community-based mental health treatment services for seniors and people with disabilities
S 895/HR 1535; Children's Health First Act allow states to expand children's health coverage to families up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level
HR 1308S/764, Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act to permit states the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 would preserve state laws that are more comprehensive while creating parity in health plans offering mental health coverage by equating financial requirements and treatment limitations for mental health benefits with medical and surgical benefits.
S 325/HR 506, Health Partnership Act would provide grants to individual states, groups of states, and portions of states to test various health reform strategies
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions which would stabilize medical emergency reimbursement,
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
S 657, A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to add requirements regarding trauma care
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure patient safety,
H.J.RES. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007 provision annual fit-testing of respirators for occupational exposure to tuberculosis.
S 2278/HR 4214 Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated infections
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure emergency preparedness,
HR 727, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007 would authorize an additional $46 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2012 in spending for rural medical centers that treat patients during times of national crisis
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
HR 3043; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for hospital preparednessLegislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to promote the use of health information technology:
S 1418, Wired for Health Care Quality Act
HR3043/S1710, Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Related Agencies FY 08, funding for HIT programs
HR 1467, 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act, award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems
HR 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration,guidelines and mechanisms to promote the integration of the healthcare information enterprise.
S 1408, Health Information Technology Act, would provide tax incentives and resources to offset the costs of investing in new health information technology.
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for HIT
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for HIT
HR 3043, Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for HIT
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008 provide funds for HIT
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions funding HIV/AIDS programs:
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
HR3043/S1710, FY 2008 Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, funding for Ryan White programs
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008, funding for Ryan White programs
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector
S 1604, Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act, increases the nurse workforce in rural areas, expands nursing school faculty, and develops initiatives to integrate patient safety practices into nursing education
HR 2122, Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007", limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work
S 1639, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the point-based system for visas, to give nurses special consideration under the point system
HR800/S1041, Employee Free Choice Act, require the NLRB to certify a bargaining representative if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check)
HR 2123, Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals
HR 378, Nurse and Patient Safety & Protection Act direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing a safe patient handling standard.
HR 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the definition of "supervisor"
S446, Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development (NEED) Act, grants based on the number of nursing students enrolled to hire and retain new nursing faculty
S 718, The Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act, provision study the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Nursing Education programs, , national health service corp
HR 677, Nursing School Capacity Act authorize IOM study to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating sufficient number of nurses
S1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act screening of direct patient access employees
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp.
S 588/HR 1093, Resident Physician Shortage Act, to expand the number of physician training positions in 24 states with shortages
HR 5924, The Emergency Nurse Supply Relief Act, which would address the retrogression backlog of visas for internationally-educated nurses who have been hired by U.S. hospitals but are not able to come here because of the unavailability of an employment-based (EB) visa.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers.
S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs
HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program.
H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions
HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions
S 2785, Save Medicare Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index reclassification.
S. 3101; Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index
HR 6331, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act physician payment, exceptions process for therapy caps, direct billing by independent labs for pathology services, cost-based payment for rural lab services, and provisions allowing certain hospitals to be eligible for wage index
HR 6252/S3144, would delay for 18 months the Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies.
self-referral
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals
workforce,
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME,
S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program.
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
payment:
HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA),
HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals
quality
S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children.
HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers
S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of life
rehabilitation hospitals,
S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent,
rural hospitals,
S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE)
S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load
S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals
long term care hospitals:
HR 562/S338, Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program.
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities.
Medicaid,
HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year.
HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage.
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid
HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations
S 2819, Economic Recovery in Health Care Act to implement a one-year moratorium on proposed regulatory changes to Medicaid and the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and to provide states in need with federal relief
HR 2462, the supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan provision to place a temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations, including the rules to limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and to eliminate Government Medical Education (GME).
SCHIP:
S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years
S 895/HR 1535,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date.
HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of
PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program
PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality
PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP
the FY08 IPPS proposed rule,
proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P),
the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Health care liability legislation:
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability:HR 2580, Help, Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act, cap non-economic damages at $250,000, limit a partys liability to their share, and empower courts to limit damage awards
S 1481/HR 2497, The Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act of 2007, fund ten pilot programs for states proposing new methods of resolving medical malpractice claims and reducing medical errors if the plan provides prompt and fair dispute resolution, encourages early disclosure of medical errors, enhances patient safety, and improves the affordability of malpractice insurance for providers
HR 3509, Medical Justice Act, medical liability reform legislation that would cap non-economic damages against any single health care provider at $250,000 and wrongful death total damages at $1.4 million
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2008
Florida Hospital Associaiton amended a lobbying report for in-house lobbying in Q12008 on May 2, 2008
Original Filing: 300057924.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for Ryan White programs, increase and stabilize the healthcare workforce. HR 2357; MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2007"; to create a new federal healthcare program to provide comprehensive health benefits to children
S 1218 /HR 2034, Medicare for All Act; expanding the Medicare program to those under age 65.
S 1169; State-Based Health Care Reform Act; to create a five-year pilot program in several states to develop coverage plans for the uninsured
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act require group health plans to provide comparable treatment limits and beneficiary cost sharing for medical and mental health benefits.
HR 1663, Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act to provide mental health parity in private health insurance and Medicare, and improves coverage for cost-effective and community-based mental health treatment services for seniors and people with disabilities
S 895/HR 1535; Children's Health First Act allow states to expand children's health coverage to families up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level
HR 1308S/764, Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act to permit states the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 would preserve state laws that are more comprehensive while creating parity in health plans offering mental health coverage by equating financial requirements and treatment limitations for mental health benefits with medical and surgical benefits.
S 325/HR 506, Health Partnership Act would provide grants to individual states, groups of states, and portions of states to test various health reform strategies
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions which would stabilize medical emergency reimbursement,
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
S 657, A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to add requirements regarding trauma care
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure patient safety,
H.J.RES. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007 provision annual fit-testing of respirators for occupational exposure to tuberculosis.
S 2278/HR 4214 Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated infections
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure emergency preparedness,
HR 727, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007 would authorize an additional $46 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2012 in spending for rural medical centers that treat patients during times of national crisis
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
HR 3043; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for hospital preparedness
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to promote the use of health information technology:
S 1418, Wired for Health Care Quality Act
HR3043/S1710, Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Related Agencies FY 08, funding for HIT programs
HR 1467, 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act, award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems
HR 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration,guidelines and mechanisms to promote the integration of the healthcare information enterprise.
S 1408, Health Information Technology Act, would provide tax incentives and resources to offset the costs of investing in new health information technology.
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for HIT
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for HIT
HR 3043, Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for HIT
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008 provide funds for HIT
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions funding HIV/AIDS programs:
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
HR3043/S1710, FY 2008 Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, funding for Ryan White programs
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008, funding for Ryan White programs
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector
S 1604, Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act, increases the nurse workforce in rural areas, expands nursing school faculty, and develops initiatives to integrate patient safety practices into nursing education
HR 2122, Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007", limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work
S 1639, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the point-based system for visas, to give nurses special consideration under the point system
HR800/S1041, Employee Free Choice Act, require the NLRB to certify a bargaining representative if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check)
HR 2123, Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals
HR 378, Nurse and Patient Safety & Protection Act direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing a safe patient handling standard.
HR 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the definition of "supervisor"
S446, Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development (NEED) Act, grants based on the number of nursing students enrolled to hire and retain new nursing faculty
S 718, The Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act, provision study the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Nursing Education programs, , national health service corp
HR 677, Nursing School Capacity Act authorize IOM study to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating sufficient number of nurses
S1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act screening of direct patient access employees
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp.
S 588/HR 1093, Resident Physician Shortage Act, to expand the number of physician training positions in 24 states with shortages
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers.
S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs
HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program.
H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions
HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions
self-referral
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals
workforce,
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME,
S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program.
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
payment:
HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA),
HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals
quality
S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children.
HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers
S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of liferehabilitation hospitals,
S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent,
rural hospitals,
S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE)
S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load
S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals
long term care hospitals:
HR 562/S338 Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program.
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities.
Medicaid,
HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year.
HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage.
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid
HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations
SCHIP:
S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years
S 895/HR 1535,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date.
HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of
PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program
PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality
PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP
the FY08 IPPS proposed rule,
proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P),
the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Health care liability legislation:
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability:HR 2580, Help, Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act, cap non-economic damages at $250,000, limit a partys liability to their share, and empower courts to limit damage awards
S 1481/HR 2497, The Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act of 2007, fund ten pilot programs for states proposing new methods of resolving medical malpractice claims and reducing medical errors if the plan provides prompt and fair dispute resolution, encourages early disclosure of medical errors, enhances patient safety, and improves the affordability of malpractice insurance for providers
HR 3509, Medical Justice Act, medical liability reform legislation that would cap non-economic damages against any single health care provider at $250,000 and wrongful death total damages at $1.4 million
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
1st Quarter, 2008
In Q1, Florida Hospital Associaiton had in-house lobbyists. The report was filed on April 18, 2008.
Original Filing: 300044467.xml
Lobbying Issues
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions contained bills in which would offer Medicare, Medicaid and/or SCHIP to more children, create parity in coverage of mental health benefits, foster reform at the state level, stabilize trauma care, prevent healthcare acquired infections, ensure hospital preparedness, expand the use of health information technology, provide funding for Ryan White programs, increase and stabilize the healthcare workforce. HR 2357; MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2007"; to create a new federal healthcare program to provide comprehensive health benefits to children
S 1218 /HR 2034, Medicare for All Act; expanding the Medicare program to those under age 65.
S 1169; State-Based Health Care Reform Act; to create a five-year pilot program in several states to develop coverage plans for the uninsured
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act require group health plans to provide comparable treatment limits and beneficiary cost sharing for medical and mental health benefits.
HR 1663, Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act to provide mental health parity in private health insurance and Medicare, and improves coverage for cost-effective and community-based mental health treatment services for seniors and people with disabilities
S 895/HR 1535; Children's Health First Act allow states to expand children's health coverage to families up to 400 percent of the Federal poverty level
HR 1308S/764, Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act to permit states the option of coverage of legal immigrants under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 558, Mental Health Parity Act of 2007 would preserve state laws that are more comprehensive while creating parity in health plans offering mental health coverage by equating financial requirements and treatment limitations for mental health benefits with medical and surgical benefits.
S 325/HR 506, Health Partnership Act would provide grants to individual states, groups of states, and portions of states to test various health reform strategies
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions which would stabilize medical emergency reimbursement,
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
S 657, A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to add requirements regarding trauma care
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure patient safety,
H.J.RES. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007 provision annual fit-testing of respirators for occupational exposure to tuberculosis.
S 2278/HR 4214 Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated infections
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure emergency preparedness,
HR 727, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007 would authorize an additional $46 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2012 in spending for rural medical centers that treat patients during times of national crisis
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for hospital preparedness
HR 3043; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for hospital preparedness
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to promote the use of health information technology:
S 1418, Wired for Health Care Quality Act
HR3043/S1710, Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education, and Related Agencies FY 08, funding for HIT programs
HR 1467, 10,000 Trained by 2010 Act, award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve health care information systems
HR 2406, Healthcare Information Technology Enterprise Integration,guidelines and mechanisms to promote the integration of the healthcare information enterprise.
S 1408, Health Information Technology Act, would provide tax incentives and resources to offset the costs of investing in new health information technology.
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for HIT
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for HIT
HR 3043, Labor, HHS Appropriations bill, provide funds for HIT
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008 provide funds for HIT
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions funding HIV/AIDS programs:
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
S Con Res 21/H Con Res 99, Budget resolution -- extending program to provide funds for Ryan White programs
HR3043/S1710, FY 2008 Labor HHS Appropriations Bill, funding for Ryan White programs
HR 2764; omnibus appropriations bill for FY2008, funding for Ryan White programs
Legislation to expand health care coverage and access including provisions to ensure sufficient workforce within in the healthcare sector
S 1604, Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act, increases the nurse workforce in rural areas, expands nursing school faculty, and develops initiatives to integrate patient safety practices into nursing education
HR 2122, Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007", limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours a nurse may be required to work
S 1639, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the point-based system for visas, to give nurses special consideration under the point system
HR800/S1041, Employee Free Choice Act, require the NLRB to certify a bargaining representative if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative (card-check)
HR 2123, Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, to establish direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals
HR 378, Nurse and Patient Safety & Protection Act direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing a safe patient handling standard.
HR 1644, Re-Empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers (RESPECT) Act, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the definition of "supervisor"
S446, Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development (NEED) Act, grants based on the number of nursing students enrolled to hire and retain new nursing faculty
S 718, The Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act, provision study the impact of differences in staffing, organization, size, and structure of intensive care units on access, quality, and efficiency of care
HJ Res. 20, Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, extending program to provide funds for Nursing Education programs, , national health service corp
HR 677, Nursing School Capacity Act authorize IOM study to identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating sufficient number of nurses
S1577, Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act screening of direct patient access employees
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp.
S 588/HR 1093, Resident Physician Shortage Act, to expand the number of physician training positions in 24 states with shortages
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. Senate
Lobbying Issues
Legislation regarding Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement issues which include provisions to expand access, improve services, stabilize payments to hospitals and other providers under Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SCHIP by addressing reimbursement, parity, quality, self-referral, workforce, payment issues, rehabilitation hospitals, long term care hospitals, rural hospitals and various regulations.
HR 2055 Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act, to improve children's access to health care coverage under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
HR 2606, 340B Drug Expansion Act of 2007, to revise and expand the drug discount program under that section to improve the provision of discounts on drug purchases for certain safety net providers.
S 355, Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act, to create a permanent, 15-member commission to make recommendations on how best to save the entitlement programs
HR 4105; the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor Program Moratorium Act of 2007 that would enact a one-year, nationwide moratorium on the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program.
H Con Res 312/S Con Res 70, fiscal year (FY)2009 budget resolutions, Medicare and Medicaid reductions
HR 5480/S 2662, Medicare Funding Warning Response Act, various provisions
self-referral
HR 1424; Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act provision banning the growth of physician-owned specialty hospitals
workforce,
HR3043/S1710; Labor, HHS Appropriations bill; nursing education, national health service corp, rural health programs, childrens hospitals GME,
S 543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program.
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
payment:
HR 2206, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206) contained moratorium on medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
HR 1480/1741/S 787, to place a two-year moratorium on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implementation of medicaid regulations regarding capping payment to public providers and GME
funding from Section 1011 of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA),
HR 1293, Access to Medicare Imaging Act stop the reduction Medicare reimbursements for some medical imaging services
HR 882, Access to Emergency Services Act that would increase by 10 percent Medicare reimbursements to physicians who provide care in emergency departments (EDs) or post-stabilization care related to emergency medical conditions in other areas of hospitals
HR 552/S 329, The Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program.
HR 3533/S2460, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 3668, TMA, Abstinence Education, and QI Programs Extension Act includes provision which would mitigate the impact of the behavioral offset in the FY08 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent, Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals, Section 508 hospitals
quality
S 1226, Children's Health Care Quality Act would allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fund evidence-based demonstrations to improve hospital care for children.
HR 1666, Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act which would build on existing state efforts to report hospital pricing data and require insurers to disclose estimated out-of-pocket costs to consumers
S 465; Advance Directives Improvement and Education Act of 2007" to improve access to information about healthcare options and legal rights for care near the end of liferehabilitation hospitals,
S543/HR 1459, Preserving Patient Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals Act of 2007"; to extend the 60 percent compliance threshold used to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility under the Medicare program
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Permanently freezes the inpatient rehabilitation services compliance threshold at 60 percent,
rural hospitals,
S 1605/HR 2860, Health Care Access and Rural Equity Act (H-CARE)
S 1595, Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act CAHs would gain flexibility to respond to daily and seasonal fluctuations in patient load
S 2499;; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Extends for six months the work geographic index floor, for six months the provision that allows independent laboratories to continue to bill Medicare directly for the technical component of certain physician pathology services, Provides reasonable cost reimbursement for clinical lab tests performed by certain small rural hospitals
long term care hospitals:
HR 562/S338 Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement establishing facility and patient criteria for long-term care hospitals and related improvements under the Medicare Program.
S 2499; Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act Provides regulatory relief for three years to ensure continued access to current long-term care hospital services, while also imposing a limited moratorium on the development of new, long-term care facilities.
Medicaid,
HR 2512, Reducing Coverage Gaps for Kids Act To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to prohibit States from requiring eligibility determinations for children for benefits under the Medicaid Program and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) more frequently than once every year.
HR 2147, Healthy Kids Act to amend titles XXI and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and streamline enrollment under SCHIP and Medicaid and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a healthy savings tax credit for purchase of children's health coverage.
HR1111, Kids Come First Act to ensure that every uninsured child in America has health insurance coverage,
HR 1878, To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid
HR 3533/S2460 "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
HR 5613, Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act, temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Medicaid regulations
SCHIP:
S 1224, that would reauthorize the State Childrens Health Insurance Program and expand it to allow additional coverage to six million children within 10 years
S 895/HR 1535,
HR 3162, "Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act"
HR 976 in the Senate, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
S. 1893, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
S 2049, The Better Health for America's Children Act," to block a new policy to limit states' ability to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program
S 2152, Kids First Actalternative SCHIP bill that would restrict coverage to individuals younger than age 19 in low-income families
HR 3963; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act revised bill to extend and expand the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
S 2499 the bill extends SCHIP through March 31, 2009, and provides adequate funding to states to maintain their current enrollment through that date.
HR 3533, "Public & Teaching Hospital Preservation Act" to extend a moratorium prohibiting CMS from implementing the Medicaid proposed rule that would limit Medicaid payments to public hospitals and narrow the definition of government provider and eliminate Medicaid GME
regulations including, but not limited to, provisions of
PL 106-554, Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions related to critical access hospitals, inpatient hospital services Direct Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Outpatient Services, Skilled Nursing Facilities, State Children's Health Insurance Program
PL 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, provisions related to rural hospitals, inpatient hospital services, skilled nursing facilities, hospice care, hospital outpatient departments, health care quality
PL 109-171; Deficit Reduction Act, provisions related to rehabilitation hospitals, medicaid DSH payment, medicare-dependent hospitals, gainsharing, Medicaid, SHCHIP
the FY08 IPPS proposed rule,
proposed Medicaid rule (CMS 2258-P),
the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) demonstration.
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Lobbying Issues
Health care liability legislation:
Bills to amend the tort system as it applies to health care liability:HR 2580, Help, Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act, cap non-economic damages at $250,000, limit a partys liability to their share, and empower courts to limit damage awards
S 1481/HR 2497, The Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act of 2007, fund ten pilot programs for states proposing new methods of resolving medical malpractice claims and reducing medical errors if the plan provides prompt and fair dispute resolution, encourages early disclosure of medical errors, enhances patient safety, and improves the affordability of malpractice insurance for providers
HR 3509, Medical Justice Act, medical liability reform legislation that would cap non-economic damages against any single health care provider at $250,000 and wrongful death total damages at $1.4 million
Agencies Lobbied
U.S. House of Representatives
Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate
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